Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

running in the Mississippi Sunday night and
Yesterday the river was closed, the earlles5
aver known. The thermometer marked ~
degrees below last night.
John Peters, giant, seven feet four inch.
ga in height, died in Chicago Sunday, CT
typhoid fever. Peters WAS only 81 years
old. and came to America about year ago.
He had been on exhibition at museum.
Ata meeting of the pastors of the various
Protestant denominations in Chicago yester-
dav. the subject of Sabbath dissertation was
discussed and Congress will be asked to en-
act law for the better observance of The
day.
The expected insanity proceedings in ex-
Senator Jones's case did not take place IN
Detroit yesterday. An influential friend OF
the Jones family has arrived there from
Florida and will make a final effort to get
Mr.. Jones away. fit fails the contemplated
legal steps will be taken.
The residence Of David Barrett, well
known lawyer of Brooklyn. was robbed yes
terday evening Of about S., coo worth of dia-
monds and jewelry belonging TO Mrs. Bar
rett. The gems were taken from bureau
drawer in the second story while the family
were at dinner.
Ex.Gov. st. John, of Kansas. says the re
suits of the recent State elections were very
gratifying to the prohibitionists He claim
ed that they were steadily increasing in
numbers, end that prohibition wes success
in Kansas. He said he would not under
any circumstances be q candidate for Pres'-
dent.
Brooklyn is much excited over the an
nouncement that seven hundred dollars was
paid DR.. Parker, the English Clergyman for
his Bsecher euogy. Parker thinks that
was not extravagant compt nsation for trav
cling 6.O00 miles, leaving MS pulpit and
home five weeks and the work Of preparing
the address.
Gov. Gray, of Indiana, has made private
investigations into charges Of cruelty at the
Women's State Rcformatory. He found
! that the girls aso tied up by the wrists or
with handouts and whipped b:ntally on
| their bare backs Attempts at bribery were
also discovered and whispers OF deeper scam
| dals circulate.
Mr.. Thomas Potter. an American, %
wars CID, residing in Paris, was insulted By
| II George Carmona q few days ago in the
O., uIse OF conversation about lady. 10
const quence. they fought duel with pis-
tolls, ct twenty Eve PAGES in the forest Of st.
| GERMAN, both antagonists being wounded.
| Yesterday Mr.. Potter died of bis wound.
He was an only son and leaves mother
and sister.
Herbert Bohnke. white man living on
J Tho Biadensburg road, near Washington,
had quarrel with his wife yesterday and
began TO beat her. While he was thus gu
gagged his stepson, Thomas Helmouth, a lad
seventeen years OF age, came to his mothers
assistance, and ordered him to stop. He
paid no attention, however. and the boy
! promptly drew revolver aud fired two
shots one of which struck Bohnke in the
head, making very ugly scalp wound, end
the other penetrated his shoulder.
Baltimore and Ohio railroad stock took o
tumble from 40 TO 104 yesterday on the
Baltimore Stock Exchange, and after few
sales closed weak. Vice President Samuel
| Spencer Mr.. T. Harrison Garrett, and
Messrs Chas. F. Mayer, VIM. Keyser and
James Sloan, jr., the three last so called
syndicate directors" of the B. Il 0. road,
were all in New York yesterday on bust
ness with the Drezel-Morean principals. 1t
was stated that their conference was held to
agreed upon before.
Great excitement was cauSedi in Frederick,
Md, last night by the report that q body Of
negroes were marching on the Jail. The
sheriff called to his aid the Frederick Rifles
and strong posse of citizens, who we're still
under arms at an early hour this morning
1t is reported that the colored men of Fred.
erick county were going to avenge the
lynching Of John Bigus By attacking sheriff
| Derr and the Jail, also ex policeman Harden,
4 lor ILL
recently, and his home, as we'll as the engine
house OF the United Company, where the
informants claimed the lynching party was
organized.
John l.. Sullivan fought three lively
rounds with Jack Ashton at the Westmih
ster Aquarium, in London, last night Five
thousand people witnessed the exhibition
and were very enthusiastic in their recep
ton of the American champion. many Of
them frequently calling upon Sullivan 10
light Smith," In an interview Sullivan
said that he would arrange articles to day
to fight Charley Mitchell, the meeting to
take place five days after final settlements
have been made. He declared that be
would soon take all the "bouncs" out of
Mitchell.
The committee of the Gettysburg Battle
field Memorial Association appointed to se.
lect a design and award contract for mark
ing the spot where Gen. Armistead, Of Pick
etl's division, fell inside the Federal lines,
have decided upon granite marker four
feet high, with scroll top, bearing in raised
letters the following, BRIG. Gea. Lewis A.
Armistead fell here July s, 1863" This is
the spot where the Pickett division survivors
desired to place the monument which is to
be erected on Gettysburg Hill, in The Holly
wood Cemetery at Richmond, where the
Confederate dead taken from this battlefield
are buried.
VIRGINIA NEWS.
The read between Marshall and Warren.